Observed arrival · 2026-11-06
Hajime Van’s “PLAY”: A 2,300-Work Trove in Ginza
A Ginza exhibition introduces paintings by Hajime Van, many of which went unseen for more than 40 years.
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- Ginza gallery visitors and contemporary-art readers
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- His Baren Works use a woodblock-printing tool to apply paint, then cut and recombine the paper.
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The profile traces Van’s practice from his early work in the late 1960s through periods in New York and Los Angeles, followed by design work in Tokyo. It describes Baren Works as an iterative process: paper is painted, cut, and recombined, with completed pieces sometimes becoming material for later works. The page also notes Van’s long-running creative work for Sonny Rollins’s Japan performances.
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